It is time for the 33rd edition of the Classics Club Spin – List 20 books from my CC TBR, by Sunday, March 19. The mods then pick a random number, and I have until April 30 to finish reading my spin book. Presumably, there’s some penalty if I don’t, but I always do, so no worries.
I like my entire list. It has a couple authors that I really like, but haven’t read in quite some time: McCullers, Cather, Conrad; some new-to-me authors that I’ve been meaning to get to for quite some time: Wilder, Achebe; some other new-to-me that I have no idea what to expect: Beerbohm, Green, Gardner; and then a mix of very familiar to not so familiar authors. I don’t know what to hope for. I’ll just say The Day of the Jackal because the title is intriguing.
1. The Member of the Wedding by Carson McCullers
2. Martin Chuzzlewit by Charles Dickens
3. A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court by Mark Twain
4. Zuleika Dobson by Max Beerbohm
5. Post Office by Charles Bukowski
6. Loving by Henry Green
7. The Screwtape Letters by C. S. Lewis
8. The Magus by John Fowles
9. The Long Winter by Laura Ingalls Wilder
10. Lord Jim by Joseph Conrad
11. The Ballad of the Sad Café by Carson McCullers
12. Grendel by John Gardner
13. Things Fall Apart by China Achebe
14. Scoop by Evelyn Waugh
15. Cool Hand Luke by Don Pearce
16. The Silver Sword by Ian Serraillier
17. O Pioneers! By Willa Cather
18. The Last of the Mohicans by James Fenimore Cooper
19. For Whom the Bell Tolls by Ernest Hemingway
20. The Day of the Jackal by Frederick Forsyth
Ohhh The Silver Sword - one of favourite all-time children's books. McCuller's is also popping up quite a bit in blogger land atm - was there a significant anniversary or something?
ReplyDeleteNo anniversary that I'm aware of.
DeleteOh... I've just wished you have The Last of the Mohicans, and you did!
ReplyDeleteIt was one of my favorites. I have just finished reading his daughter's book - a journal, not a novel.
It's a reread. I liked it the first time.
DeleteAs a child, Wilder was my favorite author. I read the entire series every year. I've read it again many times as an adult, at least twice aloud to my children. And every single time I re-read it, I appreciate her writing in a new way. The first time I read the first book (Little House in the Big Woods) aloud to my children, I choked up and cried at the end. That took me by surprise because I'd never been emotional over the books. I really hope you like what you've picked, but I think reading the entire series from beginning to end would be more enjoyable.
ReplyDeleteIt didn't come up for the spin, but I'll still get to it eventually. I understand your point about the entire series in order...but I'm not certain I want to commit to the full series. The Long Winter was recommended by someone I trust, as the best if I only read one. If I love it, I'll start over at the beginning.
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